prlA suppressors in Escherichia coli relieve the proton electrochemical gradient dependency of translocation of wild-type precursors.

abstract：:Glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) 65 is one of the major pancreatic antigens targeted by self-reactive T cells in type I diabetes mellitus. T cells specific for GAD65 are among the first to enter inflamed islets and may be important for the initiation of autoimmune diabetes. However, we previously reported that nonobe...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Kim SK,Tarbell KV,Sanna M,Vadeboncoeur M,Warganich T,Lee M,Davis M,McDevitt HO

更新日期：2004-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The full primary structure of the very potent opioid peptide dynorphin, from porcine pituitary, has been determined. It is (H)Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu-Arg-Arg-Ile-Arg-Pro-Lys-Leu-Lys-Trp-Asp-Asn-Gln(OH). The synthetic peptide with this sequence behaves identically to natural dynorphin in a number of ways, and it has the sa...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Goldstein A,Fischli W,Lowney LI,Hunkapiller M,Hood L

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Swainsonine, an indolizidine alkaloid, inhibits the processing of asparagine-linked glycoproteins in both cell-free extracts and animal cells in culture. Thus, in a liver particulate enzyme preparation, swainsonine at 0.1-1.0 microM inhibited the mannosidase that releases [3H]mannose from a high mannose glycopeptide b...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Elbein AD,Solf R,Dorling PR,Vosbeck K

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hippocampal mossy fibers, which are the axons of dentate granule cells, form powerful excitatory synapses onto the proximal dendrites of CA3 pyramidal cells. It has long been known that high-affinity binding sites for kainate, a glutamate receptor agonist, are present on mossy fibers. Here we summarize recent experime...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Schmitz D,Mellor J,Frerking M,Nicoll RA

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant phylogenetic estimates are most likely to be reliable when congruent evidence is obtained independently from the mitochondrial, plastid, and nuclear genomes with all methods of analysis. Here, results are presented from separate and combined genomic analyses of new and previously published data, including six an...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Barkman TJ,Chenery G,McNeal JR,Lyons-Weiler J,Ellisens WJ,Moore G,Wolfe AD,dePamphilis CW

更新日期：2000-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Scanning confocal fluorescence microscopy and multiphoton fluorescence microscopy were used to image the uptake of the protein lysozyme into individual ion exchange chromatography particles in a packed bed in real time. Self-sharpening concentration fronts penetrating into the particles were observed at low salt conce...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Dziennik SR,Belcher EB,Barker GA,DeBergalis MJ,Fernandez SE,Lenhoff AM

更新日期：2003-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The exquisite selectivity and catalytic activity of enzymes have been shaped by the effects of positive and negative selection pressure during the course of evolution. In contrast, enzyme variants engineered by using in vitro screening techniques to accept novel substrates typically display a higher degree of catalyti...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Varadarajan N,Gam J,Olsen MJ,Georgiou G,Iverson BL

更新日期：2005-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the prevalence of transposable elements in the genomes of higher eukaryotes, what is virtually unknown is how they amplify to very high copy numbers without killing their host. Here, we report the discovery of rice strains where a miniature inverted-repeat transposable element (mPing) has amplified from approx...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Naito K,Cho E,Yang G,Campbell MA,Yano K,Okumoto Y,Tanisaka T,Wessler SR

更新日期：2006-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic field fluctuations arising from fundamental spins are ubiquitous in nanoscale biology, and are a rich source of information about the processes that generate them. However, the ability to detect the few spins involved without averaging over large ensembles has remained elusive. Here, we demonstrate the detect...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Kaufmann S,Simpson DA,Hall LT,Perunicic V,Senn P,Steinert S,McGuinness LP,Johnson BC,Ohshima T,Caruso F,Wrachtrup J,Scholten RE,Mulvaney P,Hollenberg L

更新日期：2013-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Explanations for primate brain expansion and the evolution of human cognition and culture remain contentious despite extensive research. While multiple comparative analyses have investigated variation in brain size across primate species, very few have addressed why primates vary in how much they use social learning. ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Street SE,Navarrete AF,Reader SM,Laland KN

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The determination of macromolecular structures requires weighting of experimental evidence relative to prior physical information. Although it can critically affect the quality of the calculated structures, experimental data are routinely weighted on an empirical basis. At present, cross-validation is the most rigorou...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Habeck M,Rieping W,Nilges M

更新日期：2006-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:UDP-xylose is a sugar donor required for the synthesis of diverse and important glycan structures in animals, plants, fungi, and bacteria. Xylose-containing glycans are particularly abundant in plants and in the polysaccharide capsule that is the major virulence factor of the pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans....

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Bar-Peled M,Griffith CL,Doering TL

更新日期：2001-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The topology of the tight junction is probed by introducing dipicrylamine (dpa-), a lipid-soluble anion, into the membranes of hepatocyte pairs in culture. Once partitioned into the membrane, dpa- ions are free to move in the hydrophobic core of the membrane, where their mobile charges greatly increase membrane capaci...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Turin L,Béhé P,Plonsky I,Dunina-Barkovskaya A

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:S3I-201 (NSC 74859) is a chemical probe inhibitor of Stat3 activity, which was identified from the National Cancer Institute chemical libraries by using structure-based virtual screening with a computer model of the Stat3 SH2 domain bound to its Stat3 phosphotyrosine peptide derived from the x-ray crystal structure of...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Siddiquee K,Zhang S,Guida WC,Blaskovich MA,Greedy B,Lawrence HR,Yip ML,Jove R,McLaughlin MM,Lawrence NJ,Sebti SM,Turkson J

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant cells sense environmental nitrogen levels and alter their gene expression accordingly to survive; however, the underlying regulatory mechanisms still remains to be elucidated. Here, we identified and characterized a transcription factor that is responsible for expression of nitrogen assimilation genes in a unice...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Imamura S,Kanesaki Y,Ohnuma M,Inouye T,Sekine Y,Fujiwara T,Kuroiwa T,Tanaka K

更新日期：2009-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The transmembrane precursor of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF) exits the trans-Golgi network (TGN) in tubular carriers for subsequent trafficking and delivery to the cell surface; however, the molecular machinery responsible for Golgi export is unknown. We previously reported that members of the TGN golgin family ar...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Lieu ZZ,Lock JG,Hammond LA,La Gruta NL,Stow JL,Gleeson PA

更新日期：2008-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The estrogen receptor (E2R) from rabbit uterus has an enhanced affinity for BrdUrd-substituted DNA compared to unsubstituted DNA. Increasing levels of BrdUrd substitution (from 0 to 100%) in a DNA sample are associated with increasingly tighter binding of E2R to that DNA as measured by equilibrium competition experime...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Kallos J,Fasy TM,Hollander VP,Bick MD

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two precursors to Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) melanin-concentrating hormone, an important factor in teleosts involved in the control of skin pigmentation and stress responsiveness, have been identified from DNA sequence analysis. Both precursors encode proteins of 132 amino acids and they share 107/132 a...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Minth CD,Qiu H,Akil H,Watson SJ,Dixon JE

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholinergic pathways serve important functions in learning and memory processes, and deficits in cholinergic transmission occur in Alzheimer disease (AD). A subset of muscarinic cholinergic receptors are linked to G-proteins that activate phospholipase C, resulting in the liberation of inositol trisphosphate and Ca2+ ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Kelly JF,Furukawa K,Barger SW,Rengen MR,Mark RJ,Blanc EM,Roth GS,Mattson MP

更新日期：1996-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The intermediates and the rate-limiting step in the crystallization of deoxygenated sickle hemoglobin have been determined by a kinetic study with the use of electron microscopy. In slowly stirred solutions of deoxygenated hemoglobin S [Pumphrey, J. & Steinhardt, J. (1977) J. Mol. Biol. 112, 359--375], the sequential ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Wilson SM,Makinen MW

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differential scanning microcalorimetry provides a noninvasive method for studying heat evolution in living cells. We used this technique to measure the heat evolved by thioglycollate broth-elicited mouse macrophages, and the effects of NaF, KCN, cycloheximide, and cytochalasins B and D on this parameter. The total hea...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Loike JD,Silverstein SC,Sturtevant JM

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Niemann-Pick C1 (NPC1) and NPC2 proteins are indispensable for the export of LDL-derived cholesterol from late endosomes. Mutations in these proteins result in Niemann-Pick type C disease, a lysosomal storage disease. Despite recent reports of the NPC1 structure depicting its overall architecture, the function of its ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Li X,Lu F,Trinh MN,Schmiege P,Seemann J,Wang J,Blobel G

更新日期：2017-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of major histocompatibility complex class II gene expression is directly involved in the control of normal and abnormal immune responses. In humans, HLA-DR, -DQ, and -DP class II heterodimers are encoded by a family of alpha- and beta-chain genes clustered in the major histocompatibility complex. Their ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Reith W,Barras E,Satola S,Kobr M,Reinhart D,Sanchez CH,Mach B

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe an algorithm to compute trisections of orientable four-manifolds using arbitrary triangulations as input. This results in explicit complexity bounds for the trisection genus of a 4-manifold in terms of the number of pentachora (4-simplices) in a triangulation. ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Bell M,Hass J,Rubinstein JH,Tillmann S

更新日期：2018-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:D gene segments with irregular spacers (DIR) are D gene segments that are specific to higher primates. Their use is controversial because of their G+C-rich long sequences. In the human, it has always been tempting to assume that a complementarity-determining region 3 sequence has been added by terminal deoxynucleotidy...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Tuaillon N,Capra JD

更新日期：1998-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The 32-kDa subunit of replication protein A (RPA) is phosphorylated during the S phase of the cell cycle in vivo and during simian virus 40 DNA replication in vitro. To explore the functional significance of this modification, we purified a HeLa cell protein kinase that phosphorylates RPA in the presence of single-str...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Brush GS,Anderson CW,Kelly TJ

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The motility of cilia and flagella is powered by dynein ATPases associated with outer doublet microtubules. However, a flagellar kinesin-like protein that may function as a motor associates with the central pair complex. We determined that Chlamydomonas reinhardtii central pair kinesin Klp1 is a phosphoprotein and, li...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Yokoyama R,O'toole E,Ghosh S,Mitchell DR

更新日期：2004-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Border cell migration is a stereotyped migration occurring during the development of the Drosophila egg chamber. During this process, a cluster composed of six to eight follicle cells migrates between nurse cells toward the oocyte. Receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) are enriched at the leading edge of the follicle cells...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Assaker G,Ramel D,Wculek SK,González-Gaitán M,Emery G

更新日期：2010-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Mate attraction in Aplysia involves a long-distance water-borne signal (the protein pheromone attractin), which is released during egg laying. Aplysia californica attractin attracts species that produce closely related attractins, such as Aplysia brasiliana, whose geographic distribution does not overlap that of A. ca...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Painter SD,Cummins SF,Nichols AE,Akalal DB,Schein CH,Braun W,Smith JS,Susswein AJ,Levy M,de Boer PA,ter Maat A,Miller MW,Scanlan C,Milberg RM,Sweedler JV,Nagle GT

更新日期：2004-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cells express thousands of different surface proteins that can be used for cell classification, or to distinguish healthy and disease conditions. A method capable of profiling a substantial fraction of the surface proteome simultaneously and inexpensively would enable more accurate and complete classification of...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Pollock SB,Hu A,Mou Y,Martinko AJ,Julien O,Hornsby M,Ploder L,Adams JJ,Geng H,Müschen M,Sidhu SS,Moffat J,Wells JA

更新日期：2018-03-13 00:00:00